It’s been dubbed a Noah’s Ark for plant life and built to withstand an earthquake or a nuclear strike.

Dug deep into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, Norway has created a “doomsday” vault to protect the world’s seeds from global catastrophe.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a backup to the world’s 1,400 other seed banks, was being officially inaugurated in a ceremony Tuesday on the northern rim of civilization attended by about 150 guests from 33 countries.

The frozen vault has the capacity to store 4.5 million seed samples from around the globe, shielding them from climate change, war, natural disasters and other threats.

“There are not many countries in the world they could have pulled this off,” said Cary Fowler, executive director of project partner the Global Crop Diversity Trust.

Norway owns the vault in Svalbard, a frigid archipelago about 620 miles from the North Pole. The Nordic country paid US $9.1 million for construction, which took less than a year. Other countries can deposit seeds for free and reserve the right to withdraw them upon need.

The operation is funded by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which was founded by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and Biodiversity International, a Rome-based research group.

It was about -15 Celsius (5 Fahrenheit) outside as reporters were allowed in for a sneak peak of the vault on Monday. But it was colder inside.

Giant air conditioning units have chilled the vault to -18 Celsius (-0.4 F), a temperature at which experts say many seeds could last for 1,000 years.

Inside the concrete entrance, decorated for the opening with an ice sculpture of a polar bear, a roughly 400-foot tunnel with steel and concrete leads to three separate 32-by-88-foot chambers where the seeds will be stored.

The first 600 boxes with 11 tons (12 U.S. tons) of seed have already arrived at Svalbard from 20 seed banks around the world, Norwegian Agriculture Minister Terje Riis-Johansen said at a seminar Monday. The first 75 boxes will be carried into the vault by guests as part of the opening ceremony.

The seeds are packed in silvery foil containers – as many as 500 in each sample – and placed on blue and orange metal shelves inside the vaults. Each vault can hold 1.5 million sample packages of all types of crop seeds, from carrots to wheat.

Construction leader Magnus Bredeli-Tveiten said the vault is designed to withstand earthquakes – successfully tested by a 6.2-magnitude temblor off Svalbard last week – and even a direct nuclear strike.

Even if power systems failed, the permafrost around the vault would help keep the seeds “cold for 200 years even in the worst case climate scenario,” said Fowler.

He expected the vault’s life span to rival that of Egypt’s ancient pyramids.

“So much of the value of Svalbard is that it is so far away from the dangers” that affect many other parts of the globe, Fowler said. The archipelago is about 300 miles north of the Norwegian mainland.

Other seed banks are in less protected areas. For example, war wiped out seed banks in Iraq and Afghanistan, and one in the Philippines was flooded in the wake of a typhoon in 2006. Fowler said the Svalbard bank was a like an insurance policy.

“It’s like you get in your car in the morning and drive to the office. You don’t expect to get into a car accident, but you buy insurance anyway,” he said.

The Svalbard vault is protected by armed guards, but their rifles aren’t only meant to discourage uninvited humans from coming too close.

“My job is to keep away people who aren’t supposed to be here, and guard against polar bears,” said seed vault worker Jimmy Olsen, who was standing outside the entrance Monday with a bear rifle slung from his shoulder. There are an estimated 3,000 polar bears on the islands.

Norway has received praise from around the world for building the seed bank.

FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf on Monday called it “one of the most innovative and impressive acts in the service of humanity.”

But the world spotlight has worried some locals who treasure the isolation of the Arctic archipelago.

“We like to be here a little bit for ourselves,” said Kai Tredal, 42, one of the roughly 2,000 residents of Svalbard’s main town of Longyearbyen.

So the point of this artical was to deleiver a message to the world that the global powers that be are planning for a great escape into the ground and hide away when all hell breaks loose. imagin the terminator intro. some distance future a great war breaks out and destroys a bunch, everyone but the people who were smart enought to save and build boxes or rocks to crwal under while come out kings and gods of a new world

If terrorists strike U.S. Cities with nuclear weapons, our nation will never be the same. Borders will close, detention camps will open, and ‘America’ will be a thing of the past

– by James Roberts – SecretsofSurvival.com –

Martial Law – The system of rules that become reality when the military takes over the regular administration of justice in a land.Okay, let’s say that the scenario that seems so possible actually happens (FBI Director Robert Mueller even wrote about it in a recent book, The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World). If you’ve been reading up here at SecretsofSurvival.com then you know what scenario we’re talking about.An American Hiroshima.

In such a situation, several cities would be attacked through the use of nuclear technology in close succession. In other words, a nuclear bomb might go off in New York, then it might be followed by another blast the next day (or even only hours later) in Washington D.C.

And so on and so forth.

In fact, let’s say that the terrorists target seven cities with large Jewish populations like New York, Washington D.C., Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Chicago in successive days. Further, let’s take the scenario a step further and indicate that soon after detonation in a city, the suburbs surrounding it are attacked by small terror cells.

The scenario is terrible, no doubt. But here’s what else.

Such a situation would almost certainly result in a period of Martial Law.

What Martial Law might look like in the United States

First, martial law has been looked at in several films, etc. Along with this, no one really knows exactly what it would mean as the way it would take hold would differ depending on the circumstances. But under the aforementioned- Muslim terrorists targeting seven major cities with nuclear bombs and then attacking suburbs outside the explosive areas – we could expect at least some of the following.

Curfew – A curfew before dark would no doubt be imposed. The reasons are obvious: If the military is in an area, they want to ask as little questions as possible when they see someone outside, and in darkness this feeling would be tenfold.

Further, when the military is in charge fun will be less paramount. In other words, the government and soldiers won’t want to deal with people out after dark.

Employment to continue soon – Initially, all activity would likely cease if a nuclear bomb were to be set off in or near an area. That said, once the threat of injury due to fallout was lifted, the government would want to get people back to work as soon as possible.

In other words, we all need work to survive and that’s exactly what the country would want to do: Survive.

Rations – The military just might end up in charge of rationing out food and supplies, if needed in the area, during a period of Martial Law.

Military Tribunals – Don’t expect a standard jury and trial during such times. A trial? Yes, in a way at least. Basically, members of the military ( a military commission ) would meet to determine a lawbreakers fate during a Martial Law period and this would happen swiftly.

Further, the public would have to expect much more severe penalties for lawbreaking (particularly for those offenses that could in any minor way be tied to violence or, of course, terrorism).

In other words, if you were found to be a terrorist under military rule. . . Well, let’s face it: The government would probably pass a law putting these people to death.

And remember, during such times the military would not act like local police. In other words, they would probably give possible lawbreakers only one shot before shooting on site if that.

Security – With security the number one directive, expect that leaving a city/ area by car would be an ordeal. We’re talking akin to getting into Canada (actually, a lot worse). Thus, travel, beyond to places of employment, would be severely restricted (possibly by permit only?).

Detention Camps – Some might not like to hear this but detention camps would clearly be warranted if such a thing were to occur. Back on November 13, 2001 the President issued a military order involving the detention, treatment, and trial of certain non-citizens in the war against terrorism. Basically, this order said that the government could detain non-citizens reasonably suspected of being a terrorist or harboring them (as long as they were treated humanely in these detention centers).

Further, there would be a trial (by military commission). In other words, much like the Military Tribunals spoken of earlier.

Beyond this, it is quite clear that the United States has considered such detention situations as Halliburton’s former engineering and construction subsidiary has a contingency contract with the Department of Homeland Security to construct detention facilities in the case of national emergency (according to WorldNetDaily).

An ICE spokesman (ICE being the former subsidiary) further indicated that the detention centers would be used in the event of a mass migration crisis. Along with this, it is very hard to know how many people might be detained in such a manner (but guess on nearly every Muslim with any known tie whatsoever to terrorist states being locked up until things can be sorted through). Thus, taking everything into account, we’re probably talking about tens of thousands.

The problem with detention – Obviously under such circumstances the United States would have to detain several non-citizens as was noted earlier. Further, if we’re going to be honest, many of them would be Muslims (again, this was noted earlier). But consider this: What if some of our own citizens were helping the terrorists?

Remember all of that stuff on the MS-13 street gang helping terrorists cross the border? Expect these guys to be put into detention – if this is shown to be even possible – and dealt with as well.

In the end, this is all scary stuff. Then again, survival is all about dealing with scary stuff. See you next time